174934 - Make GUI for selecting offline folders more convenient

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Genssler]

My setting: 
- W2k
- Mozilla 1.1, (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1)
Gecko/20020826), however, this enhancement request also applies to other
versions/platforms (also netscape 4.x, 6.x) is affected.
- Mail server: IMAP, Exchange 5.5

The current UI for selecting offline folders is sort of annoying: Each folder
which one want to make available offline needs to be ticked separately. This is
really time-consuming for people with large mailboxes (I have about 500 folders
and I need them all accessible in both cases: on the server and offline on my
notebook). Ironically, I can select more than one folder (seems to be a list
with multiple selection switched on) but I can't make them avaliable offline in
one go<g>.

Even worse, our Exchange-mail server (or is it Mozilla?) 'forgets' about offline
availability of certain (or sometimes even all) folders from time to time (every
three months or so). Means that I have to repeat that stupid action every three
months...

This cumbersome thing has been there since at least Netscape 4.x.

My wishes for enhancement:
- the possibility to select several server folders (e.g., by shift-clicking or
ctrl-clicking on them) to make them available for offline use in one go (similar
to subscribing to IMAP folders)

- or to click on collapsed root folders to make them available for offline use
together with all their sub-folders

- or something else that allows one to make 500+ folders availabe for offline
use and that takes less than 20 secs ;-)

Thanks and best regards,
Thomas

Comment 1

[Patrick]

confirming RFE. 
IMHO it would be easy to add a "select all" checkbox.

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

> - or to click on collapsed root folders to make them available for offline
>   use together with all their sub-folders

This is covered by bug 79186.

> - the possibility to select several server folders (e.g., by shift-clicking
>   or ctrl-clicking on them) to make them available for offline use in one
>   go (similar to subscribing to IMAP folders)

This would be a nice addition to bug 79816.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

if you multi-select in the offline download dialog, pressing space should toggle all the selected folders.